Bale-tie buckle.



P. REGENOLD. BALE TIE BUCKLE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1911.

1 ,O 1 3 ,442 I Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

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FREDERICK REGENOLD, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

BALE-TIE BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 12, 1911.

Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

Serial No. 626,796.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK REGENOLD,

citizen of the United States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Tie Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to wire bale tie-buckles, and has for its object to provide a simple tie buckle formed from a single piece of wire with its portions so arranged that when applied they will effectually hold and bind the ends of a tie about a bale.

With this object in view the buckle consists of a section of wire bent upon itself at a point midway between its ends with the side portions twisted upon each other forming an eye. The side portions are then bent at approximately a right angle to the plane of the eye and are extended up in hooked extremities. One end of the tie is secured in the eye, and after the tie is passed around the bale the other end thereof is wrapped around the hooked extremities which are then flattened down securely holding the tie under.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective of the tie buckle applied to a tie; Fig. 2 is an edge View of the same; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the buckle; Fig. 4 is an end View of the buckle; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of another form of the buckle; and Fig. 6 is an end view of said other form of the buckle.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawing by the same reference characters.

As illustrated in the drawing, the wire tie buckle consists of a section of wire 1 which is bent upon itself at a point midway between its ends and the side portions are then twisted uponeach other, as at 2, forming an eye 3. The side portions of the wire are then bent approximately at a right angle to the plane of the eye 3, as at 4, and the extremities of the side portions are formed up into hooks 5. In one form of the invention the hooks 5 are directly above the portions 4 of the wire for a short distance and their extremities are disposed outwardly beyond the outer sides of the portions 4, as shown in Figs. and 6, while in another form of the invention the hooks 5 are spirally disposed so: that their tip ends are not directly above the portions 4 of the wire, but are beyond the outer sides thereof, as best shown in Fig. 4.

The numeral 6 indicates the ordinary wire tie. In application one end of the tie 6 is threaded through the eye 3 and the tie is then bent over between the side portions of the wire 1 and over the end of the twist 2 remote from the eye 3. The tie is then passed around the bale and its other end is twisted around the hooks 5. The said hooks are then flattened down by a blow from a hammer or other tool and the portion of the tie wrapped around the said hooks is firmly grasped between the hooks and the bent portions 4 of the wire 1. In one instance the portions of the hooks will flatten down approximately parallel with the said portions 4 of the wire with their ends along the outer sides of the same. In the other instance the points of the hooks will pass down along the outer sides of the bent portions 4 of the wire 1 and will be embedded in the material of which the bale is formed, and consequently the possibility of the tie slipping along the bale is prevented. In that form of the buckle in which the hooks are not embedded in the material forming the bale, the said material is not damaged by the application of the buckle.

In the form of the buckle as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 it will be seen that the lower parts of the portions 4 diverge from each other, consequently when the tie 6 is wrapped around the hooks 5 the lower ends of these portions are drawn together, but the natural tendency of the lower parts of the portions 4 to spread will effectually engage the wrapped portion of the tie 6 with the hooks 5.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A tie buckle comprising a single section of wire bent upon itself at a point midway between its ends with its opposite side portions twisted upon each other forming an eye, the said portions gradually diverging from each other from said eye to form gripgether to grip a tie between the gripping ping portions and merging into hooks Which portions.

\ 10 stand up approximately at right angles to Intestllnony whereof, I afliX my signature the plane of the eye and Which are provided in presence of tWo Witnesses. With extremities disposed toward the side FREDERICK REGENOLD. [L. s.] portions of the buckle, but located beyond Witnessesz.

the outer surfaces of the said side portions, EDWARD E. TAENZER,

the hoop portions adapted to be drawn to- WALTER S. DARNELL.

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